Island Quotes

I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.
Carolyn Murphy

Family, Friends, Felt

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath.
Robert Lanza

Science, Today, Everything

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.
Matthew Fox

Enjoy, Made, South

Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.
Joshua Foer

Work, Sometimes, Makes

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.
Roddy Doyle

Sea, Stand, Grow

There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
Thomas More

Different, Sun, Others

Here's the thing: I am not only a creature of civilization, I'm an asthmatic person. I will only live so long as I have stockpiled the proper inhalers. I'm effectively a cyborg. You know how in Jurassic Park, they bred those dinosaurs with the lysine deficiencies, so if they ever got off the island, they'd die? That's me.
John Hodgman

Live, Long, Person

Indeed, most magicians catch the bug as kids. My first audience was my family in Long Island. My first 'assistant' was my mother, whom I levitated on a broom in our living room.
Criss Angel

Family, Mother, Long

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
Criss Angel

Long, Poor, Growing

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.
Nellie Bly

Said, Week, Insane

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
Laurie Anderson

Someone, America, Lives

I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Food, Country, Place

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
Bobby Jindal

Lost, Off, Last

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.
Elizabeth Olsen

Famous, Mother, Chef

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.
Helena Christensen

Great, Beautiful, Friendly

My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.
Eric Stoltz

Dad, School, Parents

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
Benicio Del Toro

Fish, Forever, Eat

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.
Vinny Guadagnino

College, Three, Half

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.
Vinny Guadagnino

Teacher, Writing, Made

I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.
Idina Menzel

Girl, Long, Thought

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.
Ellen Page

Mean, Shot, Intense

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise every influence of our great country to put a stop to that war which is now raging in Cuba and give to that island once more peace, liberty, and independence.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Peace, Great, War

When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.
Paul Cellucci

Worked, England, Gas

No man is an island. No man stands alone.
Dennis Brown

We were married in Capri almost two years ago and we have made a pact with each other to visit the beautiful island and the church where we were married every year for the rest of our lives.
Giuliana Rancic

Beautiful, Made, Two

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'
Dave Foley

Watched, Harper

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
John Millington Synge

Death, Woman, Whole

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
John Millington Synge

Good, After, Learned

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
John Millington Synge

Rock, Nothing, Strange

I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.
St. Vincent

Car, Down, Used

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